futurespice
futurespice t1_j890d6m wrote
Reply to comment by SirSassyCat in TIL Eating every course seperately is Service à la russe. Before this meals were service à la française where all courses were served at once. Ambassador Alexander Kurakin introduced Service à la russe to France in 1810 and it became the norm by the 1880s. by jamescookenotthatone
Most of what you can find in Indian restaurants in "the west" are fairly generic north Indian dishes like butter chicken, saag paneer etc.
futurespice t1_j89087g wrote
Reply to comment by quequotion in TIL Eating every course seperately is Service à la russe. Before this meals were service à la française where all courses were served at once. Ambassador Alexander Kurakin introduced Service à la russe to France in 1810 and it became the norm by the 1880s. by jamescookenotthatone
According to anyone who ever ate a meal in the UK it remains that way today.
futurespice t1_ixwrep5 wrote
Reply to comment by [deleted] in TIL that in a cricket match in Bradford, England, all the 22 players involved were surnamed Patel as was the 15-year-old scorer by RJtrip
Harish Patel
futurespice t1_irkchc7 wrote
Reply to TIL French used 10h day instead of 24h between 1793 - 1805 during era called "decimalisation" by NightKnight_CZ
They also reworked the days, week and months of the year and even nowadays you sometimes bump into laws passed on the 14th of Brumaire or some crap.
futurespice t1_j8ambu9 wrote
Reply to comment by SirSassyCat in TIL Eating every course seperately is Service à la russe. Before this meals were service à la française where all courses were served at once. Ambassador Alexander Kurakin introduced Service à la russe to France in 1810 and it became the norm by the 1880s. by jamescookenotthatone
You're maybe thinking of tandoori masala (now actually not so uncommon in India). Saag paneer, tandoori chicken, and butter chicken absolutely do exist in India and have for some time.
I think it's fair to say many dishes we think of as traditional Indian cuisine are tied to colonialism in general due to use of non native ingrédients such as chili peppers or tomato, sure, but not that it all originates from the UK.